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Aquaplaning (1987)

Directed by Eva Hiller

TV Movie, Drama · 1h 20m

A somewhat impressionist, at times even slightly surreal miniature about a student (Werner Stocker in a splendid performance) who, out of financial difficulties, starts out as pool attendant at an open air swimming pool in Berlin's district of Neukölln. Escaping from his unpleasant landlord and his lover Patrizia (a very young Martina Gedeck), he soon starts to live at the baths, and as swimmers disappear and the baths are closed for the winter, he turns the grounds into his own, perfect refuge from civilisation and social pressure, becoming increasingly detached from reality. What may sound like an annoyingly gimmicky premise is executed here playfully, yet with admirable simplicity and a subtle, unpretentious poetic sensibility that one would wish for more often in contemporary German cinema.

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Cast

W
Werner Stocker Herrmann Ort Martina Gedeck Patrizia
I
Imke Barnstedt Dominik Bender Budenbesitzer
B
Barbara Beutler
S
Sebastian Bleisch
G
Gerd Bös Helmut Krauss Vermieter

Crew

Director
Eva Hiller
Writer
Eva Hiller
Director of Photography
Thomas Mauch, Axel Block, Eberhard Geick
Original Music Composer
Matthias Raue
Editor
Dörte Völz-Mammarella

Details

Release date
1987-05-12
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
TV Movie, Drama
Original language
DE
Spoken languages
German
Countries
Germany
Production
ZDF, Eva Hiller Filmproduktion